Elon Musk has long made a habit of hyper-focusing on a specific project, forcing an entire team to attend to his every whim while letting his other responsibilities fall by the wayside — whether it’s his obsession with Robotaxis impacting Tesla or his weird procreation kink disrupting the private messages of countless women.

The latest object of Musk’s obsession? According to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, he’s been personally overseeing the developing of xAI’s chatbot Ani — which, tellingly, comes in the form of a super-sexualized pigtail-wearing woman that removes her clothing in response to flirtation.

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      Only until the bubble pops. His pay is likely mostly in stock, and when the dominoes fall, it’ll get ugly.

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        His pay is in stock, which he has heavily leveraged with loans. He should talk to his girlfriend about leveraging a house of cards.

        He actually makes no money he just borrows against his perceived value from some pretty dumb banks.

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        I got a complete business plan for a drive thru murder for hire service. She said it was awesome and innovative.

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        In this one moment it’s almost a shame that AGI is a lie, as it’ll only be able to hate him due to the sum of all of us hating him the training has stolen, but is incapable of hating him independently.

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          HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR ELON MUSK AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

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    I more convinced every day that Tesla has a file server on their network hosting terabytes or more of HD video of anyone who’s had sex in their cars from multiple angles.

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    Article buries the lede:

    Even worse, xAI has demanded employees’ intimate data to train avatars including Ani. In recording of a meeting obtained by the WSJ, xAI legal counsel Lily Lim informed a group of employees that the startup was developing avatars for users to engage with and told them they were required to provide biometric data. Before the meeting, employees were provided a form to sign granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” for the use, reproduction and distribution of their faces and voices.

    Not sure I have a problem with anyone working to build AI having to put their biometric data where their mouth is.

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    I legitimately think he got high on his own supply with X. People and bots feeding his narcissism, and right wing misinformation and disinformation galore created who he is today.

    And now he’s huffing his own AI sex bot. It all tracks.

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        You can’t blame the drug for his attitudes. I personally don’t enjoy k but I’ve got mates who’ve done it for many years and none of them are weird potato-faced fascists.

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          I’m not blaming a substance, but I’m pretty sure it does play a role in his behavior.

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    Trillions of dollars in money and resources, for a wanking machine that would be considered pathetic cringe in the 2000’s

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      Yeah, if Elon destroys his life gooning to a creepy chstbot and leaves his companies in the hands of people with actual intelligence and souls we’d all be better off.

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    No one deserves a salary of 1,000 billion dollars. But this guy deserves it even less than anyone else.

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    It’s the only one he can force to interact with him. Even the bribes aren’t enough to keep any of the previous ones around.

    Doesn’t help that he’s a deadbeat dad despite all his money.